PHILADELPHIA — Whatever the pay, the New York Giants have won two Super Bowls in the past six years.

Better days were ahead for veteran defensive tackles Cullen Jenkins and Mike Patterson, jettisoned by the Eagles during the Andy Reid purge.

The last thing the duo figured after a 4-12 collapse, including a crushing defeat at the hands of the Giants, was to be winless after four games with New York.

“Sometimes it makes me feel like, is it me? Am I bad luck?” the 31-year-old Jenkins said yesterday on a conference call. “And what the heck is going on? But all you can do is just buckle down and keep coming to work and keep trying to get it resolved and that’s it.”

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Equally crazy is the Eagles towing the only victory between the teams into their game Sunday at MetLife Stadium. Reid, now with the Kansas City Chiefs, has thumped the Eagles and the Giants this season.

Patterson, 30, hates to lose but couldn’t help but laugh about that. He thought he had just about seen it all in nine NFL seasons.

“I’m just looking forward to this weekend being on the opposite side wearing that blue,” Patterson said. “Both teams have talent on both sides of the ball. Probably guys aren’t on the same pages with some stuff and it’s about getting on the same page. One team has got to come out with the win. So we’re going up there to fight and try to come out with the win.”

Pardon the use of “up there.” That’s all Patterson has known.

The Giants are decimated by injuries. They listed 15 players on their report yesterday including Jenkins, who was held out of practice with knee and Achilles’ tendon issues. He has six tackles in four starts. Patterson, with 10 stops, could play an expanded role this week.

The Giants have also been impacted by injuries in the secondary and offensive line, which for another week could be without starting center David Baas and guard Chris Snee. They’ve been unable to practice for weeks.

In the days leading up to the reunion, Patterson and Jenkins cannot help but rewind to their tours with the Eagles, which for all practical purposes ended long before the Giants thumped them, 42-7, at the Meadowlands in Reid’s last game as the coach.

Both players learned their fate not long after.

“It was kind of like, you know, a business call,” Patterson said. “They appreciated everything I did there. I had a lot of good years there. I don’t regret my time being with Philly. I had a blast being there with Coach Reid. I’m real thankful and grateful that Mr. Lurie gave me an opportunity. I was really happy and proud to be there.”

Lurie personally telephoned Patterson, the Eagles’ first-round pick in 2005, to express his appreciation. Patterson was a favorite of the owner, having bounced from back from surgery to correct a congenital brain defect to continue his career.

After Chip Kelly was hired as head coach of the Eagles, Jenkins, who was still under contract, texted teammates to see who had heard from the new hire. By the process of elimination, Jenkins figured he was on the outside looking in.

“Since I was living in the area I figured that I would go out and reach out to the coaches,” Jenkins said. “You know, just sit in and have a conversation with them. And I went up there to meet the coach and the secretary went in and Coach Kelly was talking with Howie (Roseman). And it was funny because I heard her talk to the coach and I was outside and then I heard the coach say, ‘Have I met him yet?’ So I knew there was probably a pretty good chance that I wasn’t in their plans.”

Jenkins met with Kelly and defensive coordinator Billy Davis.

“I take my hat off to them for how they handled the situation when they realized I wasn’t going to be part of their plans,” Jenkins said. “They didn’t just hold onto me as long as they could. They released me and they gave me an opportunity to get out there early and figure out where I wanted to go.”

The Giants just happened to need help. And it wasn’t a staggering geographic change for Patterson or Jenkins, who both reside in New Jersey.

“We just thought they were two outstanding football players who could help us,” Giants head coach Tom Coughlin said. “We thought that was one of the things we needed to shore up was our inside positions against the run, in particular. So we went in the direction of two outstanding players.”

While the Eagles and the Giants have played poorly, the same can be said of the entire NFC East, with the exception of the Dallas Cowboys (2-2). The Washington Redskins are 1-3.

Misery is good company for the Eagles and the Giants, who play twice in the next four weeks.

“The team that can get the upper hand and pull out these wins here will put themselves probably in a pretty good position to move forward toward the top of the division,” Jenkins said. “You’re lucky to even have that opportunity like that because if you look at some divisions, you’ve got like Tampa, they’re 0-4, while New Orleans is 4-0. We could very easily be in a worse situation. But also you can’t be sitting there getting too happy about it because to be honest the reason that we’re in this division is we haven’t even gotten one win yet. So even though there is a positive there for us to look at we’ve still got to focus on the biggest problem, which is we haven’t won yet.”

It’s a little late to put in extra conditioning to get ready for Kelly’s up-tempo offense, which seems to have fascinated Patterson.

“I’m sure some of the guys are watching what they eat,” Patterson said. “We’re watching them on film. The clock doesn’t look like it moved but they ran another play. We got a little piece of it playing Peyton (Manning) and the Broncos. So hopefully it’s not too much of a difference.”